What Are The Odds?: The Bill Waterhouse Story

Author: Bill Waterhouse

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Price : $36.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781741666304
Publisher : Random House Australia
Imprint : Vintage (Australia)
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Publication date : 01 September 2009
Produced in : Australia
RRP : 36.95
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Out of print date : 01 January 2011
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Author : Bill Waterhouse
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Bind : Paperback
Edition : 10-Sep
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Dewey classification : 798.401092
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Pages : 512
BIC subject : Biography & autobiography: sport; Horse racing
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Bill Waterhouse has worked the track for more than 70 years. His first day as a bookmaker in his own name was Epsom Day 1954. Henry Waterhouse, his ancestor, brought horses to Australia with the First Fleet . This family had no choice but to follow their destiny and become THE dynastic Australian horseracing family and we are now into the fourth generation of Waterhouse bookmakers. Bill was a practising barrister, albeit well-known at the track, and bookmaking was a side business until his brother Charlie died suddenly and he 'temporarily' took the family bag to the track. At 85, he can still be found - with grandson Tom - trackside and still no one else can do the numbers as fast as Bill.

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